What is really shocking is the amount of barbarity on Russian social media. They brag about the superiority of their nuclear weapons, their missiles, and their ability to destroy Western Europe and America. They love to talk big about taking Alaska (as even leaders in the Duma do). They act as if they are invulnerable to the West’s weapons.
“What is really shocking is the amount of barbarity on Russian social media”
It is going to require more losses and economic hardship to take the wind out of those sails.
It took years to whip up this level of venom. It will probably take 2-3 years of bitter losses to chasten that hubris.
It has got to be bad enough that they lose their taste for it, for a generation.
Russia also has their sabre rattling Lindsay Grahams.